Omaha daily bee., 1887-12-25
DONNELLY 0UTDONE.
4 London Critic Lets Loose His
Opinion Of Shakespeare.
THE BARD ONLY a SUN GOO.
He Delves Deep Into Ancient Fables
TO Sustain His Position.
TWELVE SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC.
They Correspond With the Peculiar
Spelling of Williams Name.
TWELVE SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC.
SOME VERY FUNNY FIGURES
Statistics Stated on Which the Writer
Challenges Investigation OF His
Peculiar Ideas on the
Great Subject.
Ignatius Must Look 10 His LaureIs.
Copyright 1857 by James Gordon Bennett

LONDON, Dec. "a New York Herald
Cable-Special to the BEE. Tho prominent
Christmas gift of the London public IS un-
questionably what may be called Literary
bon bon in the shape OF Il >hakesperean trav.
esty on Ignatius Donneily. Evidently this
bon bon is packed in a Christmas eve contr-
button by j. F Rowbotham. London critic.
He begins by denying that there is any OK
tant proof that the man Shakespeare ever
lived. He then puts forth Us the center OF
his bon bon this query:
How, then. did the idea of Shakespeare
arise in the English mind} The answer Is
plain. Shakespeare is a solar myth. He is a
personihcatiOn Of the sun, that great iu1nin-
ary of the universe which has been the object
of mans worship and the foundation Of
mans legend since the beginning of time,
appearing IN the mythology of past ages Us
hercules, IN Orpheus, an Apollo, Samson.
in more recent cases under more beautiful
alegory as Shakespeare Let us remark
that unmlsiakable evidence IS afforded by
the name, which IS parallel to the
Greek Ekata Bolos (meaning Pardarter)
and IS clearly an epithet for the
sun god, who, as he flashed his rays of light
to earth. was pictured TO the political I'M
aingations of our untutored ancestors as n
mighty warrior VINO darted his arrows or
shook his spears. Examine this name a lit
tie more closely, for under it lies Il mystery
of mysteries. The word Shakespeare this
Is the odd spelling), contains exactly twelve
letters. Is not the reference from this plain
enough that these twelve letters
are the twelve months which
make the SUMS annual revolution.
while they are at the same time the twelve
signs of the Zodiac. In keeping with this is
the fact that the full name Of the legendary
hero Is William Shakespeare. name which
consists of four sylables and Is therefore en-
| blematical of the four seasons. The tale of
bis life forms :. marvellous and cunningly
constructed allegory, full of poetry and
beauty. He is said TO have been born on the
10th of March. How appropriate. for it IS
the time of the vernaI equinox, when all ma
ture has its annual birth. His birth, - Justly
| placed in the reign of Elizabeth, the virgin
| queen. 4 plain allusiOn TO the virgin in the
| signs Of the zodiac IS made to occur IN 1854,
| the seventh year of Elizabeth's reign. Now
| it Is allowed in the Interpretation of all
| legends, biblical and others, 10 interchange
the year and day. There can be no reason
| able doubt that the seventh year here spoken
| Of sc 10,
the day of the sun. Thus far we have found
the tabled man named Shakespeare 10 have
been born on the 10Th of March in the
seventh year of EIizabeth's reign, which
| means really that the sun god. Ekata Bolos
| the Pardarter, or Spearshal1er, begins his
annual life time. The vernal equinox
in the sign of the virgin and on the day
dedicated 10 his honor, Sunday, then con-
tinues. The early years of Shakespeare are
involved in darkness, which is the way with
all solay myths, and we hear absolutely moth
ing of him till we find him coming into col
IisiOn with certain Sir Thomas Lucy. Here
the Interpretation Is easy, for Lucy IS evi-
IDENTIFY d corruption of the Latin, Lux,
Luces - light - and the fable of
Shakespeare stealing sheep from Lucy
as pOetical way of saying that the sun, the
Spearshalzer, robs the light of its rays and
decorates himself with the 5poils, show truly
beautiful. The next episode IN the Legend
the sun mounting above the horizon and ten
dery keeping watch over this globe Of ours
is ideaIized and transferred into poetic
conception, Shakespeare mounting above the
footlghts and becoming the manager of the
Globe theater During his management the
Globe is reduced TO ashes. which is evidently
an imperfect version OF the story Of Shakes.
peare interpolated by some later hand As
the sun rises in the east and sets in the
west, so IN the legend IS Shakespeare made
TO rise in London, the east of England, and
at the East End, and settle down 70 die in
Strarford, which, compared with London, il
undoubtedly the west Finally, as
the suns annual life is brought TO a
close at the end OF the ifty-two weeks, Sc
does Shakespeare, the allegoricaI sun.
sink and die after life of ifty-two wears
Substituting the week for the year, the par
able IS complete. As 70 how the connection
originated between the alIegorica. sun goC
and the plays that bear his name, there arC
three hypotheses possible--the first that th,
plays wee IN existence before the allegory
had become crystalized INTO rs presses: shap,
and were dedicated 20 the sun sod under hi.
cognomen, the Spearshaker. The second /.
that they were written by priests Of Ii,
sun god. The third IS that they were rht
direct production OF the sun god him
self This last view IS broadly hntel
at in one of the plays themselves
where the following Mysterious sentence /,
found: Il the sun ever writes book, thC
critics will have plenty Of work IL aeciphcr